Neutron to Dark Matter Decay in Neutron Stars
Nuclear Theory
2018-11-09 v2
Abstract
Recent proposals have suggested that a previously unknown decay mode of the neutron into a dark matter particle could solve the long lasting measurement problem of the neutron decay width. We show that, if the dark particle in neutron decay is the major component of the dark matter in the universe, this proposal is in disagreement with modern astro-physical data concerning neutron star masses.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1806.00903,
title = {Neutron to Dark Matter Decay in Neutron Stars},
author = {T. F. Motta and P. A. M. Guichon and A. W. Thomas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.00903},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
Invited talk presented at the Conference on Particles and Cosmology at NTU Singapore, March 2018